Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 2

% 2 THE EVENT EXECUTIVES LEAVE CITY FOR HOLIDAY President and All Cabinet Members but One Away From Capital. Dy the Associated Press. By nizhtfall Vice President Curiis will be th~ only high official of the Government cxcept Secretary of Labor Davis left in the Capital. For in one of the few times in recent history the President and most of the members of hiz cabinct will be out cf the city | at the same time. , The exodus for the Labor day week | end also includes scores of officials of Jasser magnitude and hundreds of Gov- crnment clerks for whom Monday is & holiday. Th~ President with Mrs. Hoover, See- i retary Hyde and five members of the Federa! Farm Board are sojourning at th> Chicf Exccutive’s fishing camp on ih~ headwaters of the Rapidan River in Virginia. Stimson in New York. Seeretary Stimson was the first of th> cabinet circle to depart. He leit the eity Thursday for his heme in New York. On the other hand, Postmaster | General Brown was the last to leave, making up his mind to depart late yes- | terday. Several way for some tim® | out of the city on i on_vacations. Most of officialdom will follow the ex- ample of its chief and return to Wash- ington Tuesday: and from that day on. | wsek end trips will begin to diminish ~ss purposes. The Sen- fte mext we: will begin rou:ndcra(_l\)l of ths revised House tariff bill. ‘This Will mean th> return of virtually the entire Senate membership and with th Scnate at woik the depariments lik | wis> will have their duties increased. Representatives Coming. ., Another month will see the return ot ths more than 400 House members. Fach will have many matters affecting his district to take up with departments. In addition, the departments must finish work on th? budgets for the fiscal vear beginning next July 1. as all of iinese are transmitted simuit2neously to th» Capitol as soon as the regular Ses- 1 eabinet members have been Of thess some are business and others ccept for busin sion of Congress convenes in December. | The prospect of the work ahzad each | Fall usually has made Labor day in the Government. as well as the busines: world, the last of the vacation season and this year Washington officialdom is making the most of the occasion. INVITE TESTIMONY OF JUDGE SELLERS IN GALLINGER PROBE (Continued From First Page.) consent. Dr. Bocock said patient became suddenly and required immediatz blood trans- fusion to save her life. Volunteers were asked for and Miss Purch was the ill one night only volunteer whese blood correspond- cd4 with that of the patient closely enough to allcw the transfusion. There was not time, Dr. Bocock reported, for | nore, were signed at a full conference | communication with the girl's parents. t t of blood taken was not i e ihan ?cunkd most of the morning as well as ' Durocher. Cronin beat out a grounder | greater than the amount regularly taken from all patients for blood tests without obtaining permission of the parents of such of the patients who are under age. With respect to all of the criticlsms, Dr. Bocock reported that they were ' ynfounded. and particular! . to th> case of Anne Huber. cese, Dr. Bocock said that there was no record of any complaint from the cate of her admission to the appear- ance of the article in The Evening Sllx‘.‘ , & period of 16 months. Reporter Testifies. The firct witness today was Duncan Price, a reporter on the Washington Fost. who wrote a series of articles ! commenting unfavorably on conditio: at ths hospital. Mr. Price testifie ' under oath that the facts as contained in the articles were correct and tha included reports of everything that hai pened within his observation while h2 was there. He said that in his opini Dr. Gamucl Kahn thought that he w a “faker” from the first day of his stay there. He testified that he had never before been a patient in a hospital or made | . an inspection of one. He said that since the appearance of the articles he had received numerous calls and letters containing criticisms of the hospital. Among them wcre letters from Dr. Wil- llam F. Hamler, formerly a physician on the Gallinger staff: E. J. Newcomb, + former member of the Board of Pub- lie Welfare, and J. J. Wheat, formerly hisf clerk of the hospital. He was not _acked to state the contents of these Ietters, Surgeons Approved Hospital. Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of Gallinger Hospitai, told the commit- toe at yesterday afternoon’s session that | Gallingar has had th2 unconditicnal ap- proval of the American College of Sur- f2ons since October 7 last, when a rep- resentative inspected th- institution. Dr. Bocock placed in th2 record of the h-aring a letter from Dr. Malcolm T. 11acEachern of Chicago. directcr of the Colleg of Surgeons, referring to a sec- ond visit by an inspector last April. Dr. Wilfred M. Barton, professor of medicin? at Georgetown University Medical School and chief of the medi- cal service at Gallinger, was warm in his praiss of Dr. Bocock's administration #nd conditions at the hospital. Dr. Charles Gernon testified that Samuel Follitz, said to have b2en mis- treated in the psychopathic ward, was naver there, but was an influenza pa- tisnt. for three days in another ward. Dr. Charles Nixon, admitting physician. t-stifird that perscns needing medi treatment were never turned away. Dr. John Moore characterized as “absurd” the charge that a dying man had been p'aced in the morgus. “Snooping” on Nurses Denied. Miss Catherine Moran, superintendent of nurses, told how she enforesd dis- cipline, but denied she “snooped” on the nurses. Dr. Floyd Echols called “false and foolish” thé allegations that hs had made various criticized state- ments to a Mrs. McHale, a patient at the hospital. i Dr. Bocock said it would be “an ex- cellent idea” if woman physicians were hdded to the resident staff for the {rcatment of woman patients. . Catholic Editor Dies. RUSSIANS ACCEPT CHINA’S PROPOSALS - FOR ARBITRATION _(Continued From First Page) recommend a manager and assistant manager of the Chinese Eastern Raile way, who will be appointed immediately to the dircctorate of that line. The Soviet government will initruct em- ployes of the Chinese Eastern Railway who are citizens of the U. 8. 8. R. and the Chines2 government will instruct its local authoritics and their organs strict- Iy to observe conditions coniained in. article 6 of the 1924 agreement. “Both parties will release immediately idispute since May 1, 1929.” { MOSCOW IS OPTIMISTIC. MOSCOW, August 31 |mediate danger of war between Soviet {Russia and Nationalist China in con- | sequence of seizure of the Chinese Kast- | ern Railway, which has gravely men- aced peace in the. Orient. since early in July, appeared removed today with acceptance by Russia of Chinese’ pro- posals for settlement of all mattrs in g of optimism here replaced {the undisguised anxiety and apprehen- | sion which the government and pecple |of Russ'a have manifested for the past | two months. There was rejoicing that | the principles of concilfation and dip- {lomai’~ approzchss embodied in the Kel- ! logg renunciation of war pact, to which jb>th Rusia and China are signators ihad scemil triumphed over the | meihods of armed force. | Although the important newspaper Izvestia calls attention to the fact that he conflict is not yet definitely re- lved, that the former status of the Chines> Eastern _has not yet been re- i stored and that Russian cifizens remain jin concentration camps and prisons, it is generaliy believed in Moscow that the way has boen paved by Russia's peaceful attitude for rcstoration of the status quo. Pravda. principal crgan of the Com- | munist party in Russia. says that the Soviel government’s reply gives Nan- king its fullest opportunity to terminate { “its’ policy of adventure and repeated {acts of provocation and aggression and its hypocritical protestations of peace.” In some quarters there is a disposi- | tion to accept Nanking's latest proposals I with a certain amount of reserve. FULL REPARATIONS ACCORD 15 SGNED 'Conference Adjourns After Pen-Affixing Ceremony at The Hague. I By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE. Netherlands, August 31.—The reparations conference, which " | finally reached an agrecment ]001““‘3 aken without requiring her parents’! toward liquidation of the post-war prob- that a female | 1o\c arter three weeks of intense effort, | _ | adjourned this afternoon subject to the !call of the president. . | The reports of the political and finan- cial committees, with the documents | registering the agreements entered into | this morning after verification which oc- | the better part of yesterday. | Committees Are Named. It was decided that the confcrence should not adjourn without date, be- | formally in order for the Young plan to go into operation legally. The subcommittees appointer were: | (1) For organization of the bank of | international settlements. | «2) For final liquidation of the claims arising from the sequestration of enemy property during the war. i (3) For modification of legislation in the Reich for the Dawes plan to make it fit the new Young plan, and (4) For changes to be made in rail- road debentures to permit the Reich to | raise money by issuing railroad bonds. The bank committee will be composed of the heads ot the banks of issue of the ix inviting powers, with a delegate i from each of those countries and one | probably, by Owen D, Young. 1 Interesting Session. Today's final session. although one of pure form, proved to be one of the was really the first time since the open- ing of the session that the delegates amiability. Dr. Gustav Stresemann, the German | foreign minister, took the chair on the | opening of the full session in accord- ance with the decision that there should be rotation in the presidency. He in- sisted, however, upon giving up the chair to Premier Jaspar of Belgium, the first president, who, he said, had earned | the honor by the tact and patience with { which he had conducted the difficult i meetings. Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, thereupon propes>d - that Premier Jaspar be { formally declared the parmancnt presi- dent of the conterence. Send Message to Queen. Before adopting the texts of the re- ports of the financial and political com- ! mittees the conference sent a messag> to Queen Wilhelmina congratulating her on her birthday anniversary and | thanking her for the generous hospi- | tality given the conference. | _Chancellor Snowden in nominating | Premier Jaspar said that he was all the more glad to recognize the splendid services of the presiding officer bacause he himself had given him most of the trouble he had to contend with. * * ol * * * * {all those arrestod in connection with the | (®).—All im- | from the United States to be chosen, | | most interesting from the fact that it | have been able to talk with perfect | MDONALD CERTAIN - OF ARMS SUCCESS Will Be “Most Surprised” if American Agreement Is “Not Duly Hatched.” ! By the Associated Press. ON BOARD PREMIER MacDON- ALD'S TRAIN, ENGLAND, August 31.— Premier Ramsay MacDonald, in an in- terview while en route from Londoa to Paris this afternoon dwelt cptimisti- cally on the results of The Hague repa- rations conference and the Naval dis- armament prospects. | Regarding his conversations with American representatives on Naval dis- | armament, the laborite premier as- | serted: “I have nothing nore to say | at the moment, but if the chicken is not duly hatched I shall be the most surprised man living.” As to The Hague conference, the pre- | mier said: “Whatever may have bee: | the fecling of people while the negotia- | tions actually were going on. its results are undoubtedly going to be for the | good of Europe and*of the very great- est assistance to the League of Na- | tions. . “Discussion and agreements that are | to bo the foundations of peace must contain in them the element of ob- ‘ jective fair play. That was the battle that the British government had to fight and which Mr. Snowden con- ducted, I don't believe it will have to be fought sgain. | “In our international discussions we | shall now begin not to impose some- | thing upon each other but to negotiate | and negotiate until the agreement that is to be hed is acceptable to every- body involved in it. “That is vhat I call the method of | peace and it was employed in the po- litical committed” at the Hague which ran concurrently with the finaacial committee. We have traveled from The Hague and now we are at Geneva. cannot say what the contents of my speech will be &t the League of Nations ssembly next Tuesday. I must discuss the situation with those who are now there and particularly with those who were at The Hague, “The problet of disarmament re- mains_the big question of Leagye pol- jey. 1 think during the last three or four years we have all allowed ourselves to get a bit mixed up in what after ail are secondary detafls. I don't mean nct | important details, but rather that their importance must be subordinated to the greater importance of an international agrecment. ‘There is far more security {0 an agreement between two nations | than in the security of & ship or a regi- " ment or an air squadron or two. I can- ] not say anything more about this ques- tion until I get to Geneva.” | YANKS WIN FIRST OF TWIN BILL, 4 TO O, PASCHAL GETS HOMER (Continued From First Page.) |made a wild throw to first. ‘The ball [took a bad bound and struck Judge | directly in the face and time was taken out. Dickey walked. Durocher flied to Rice. No runs. FIFTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer popped to back of third for the first hit off Wells. | West took third strike. Spencer lofted i to Meusel. No runs. { NEW YORK—Cronin Wells. Paschal lined the ball threw out over ly in respect| cause it was necessary for the Work | cronin's head between Goslin and West In this| oo 410 subcommittee to be approved | to the left center bleachers for a home {run. Lary shot a double past Hayes | to the left fleld corner. Spencer tried | to get Lary off second but his throw to | Cronin was high. Ruth tripled to deep- | est left center, scoring Lary. Meusel singled to left, scoring Ruth. Gehrig was hit in the back by the first pitch | Hadley, days ago. replaced Braxton. Meusel was caught stealing. Spencer to Hayes. Lazzeri bounced to Judge. Three runs. SIXTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Hayes fouled Dickey. Hadley popped to Lary. fanned. No runs. NEW YORK-—Dickey singled to right and. when Rice momentarily fumbled the bzll. Dickey. trying for second, was caught, Rice to Myer. Cronin threw out Durocher. Hadley threw out Wells. No runs. to SEVENTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Wells __tossed Rice. Goslin fouled to Dickey. Myer | walked for the first off Wells. Cronin took a third strike. No runs. NEW YORK—Durst batted for Pas- chal and flied to Goslin. Cronin threw out Lary. Ruth took a third strike. | No runs. E}GII'I'II INNING. WASHINGTON—Durst went to cen- | ter field for New York. West fanned. Lazzeri went back for Spencer's loft. | Hayes hoisted to Durst in short right | center. No runs. NEW YORK—Boss went to first base | for Washington. Meusel missed a third | strike, Gehrig doubled off the right- | field wall. Hayes got Lazzeri's grounder and threw him out. Gehrig going to third. Dickey filed to Rice. No runs. . NINTH INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Gooch batted for | Hadley and fanned. Boss struck out. | Rice bunted and was thrown out by Lary. No runs. Unio: Organizer Is Held. MARION, N. C.. August 31 ().—A warrant, charging “inciting a riot, A | sworn out today by Sheriff Oscar Ad- kins of McDowell County for Alfred L. Hoffman, Southern organizer for the United Textile Workers. | The Marineé .Who‘ Wouldn’ They played ping-pong instead— t Fight! * x Just hoping to heck some thoughtless Chinese army would let a bullet slip their direction by mistake. * * And start something the Marines could finish! . x 1! who beat the Yankees two| Judge | ou&’ V.F W, ADVOGATE VOTEFORDITRET Unanimous Action Taken at National Encampment in St. Paul. (Prom $:30 edition of yesterday's Star.) Special Dispateh to The Star. ST. PAUL, Minn, August 30.—The Veterans of Foreign Wars, holdipg their | thirtieth national encampment here, unanimously went on record today in | favor of national representation in | Congress and the electoral college for the resid-nts of the Distriet of Colum- bia. At the same session a resolution | was adopted urging boxing under the | supervision of veterans’ - organizations | in the District. The suffrage resolution was intro- duced by Comdr. Harvey L. Miller of thuslastically received by the conven- It was seconded by veterans from | Alaska to Florida and there was not a | single dissenting voice when it was put | to_the vote. | The measurs not only indorses the | right to suffrage of residents of the | District, but also calls upon each de-| pertment and post commander to urge the adoption of such lcgis'ation on their l"e;pectl\'e Scnators and Representa- | tives, ‘The boxing bill had been unfavorably reported by the resolution committee. The , Washington delegation took ex- | ception to the commitice’s action and | brought the bill to the floor of the con- vention. Comdr. Miller spoke in favor of the measure for 10 minutes, pointing out that the law banning boxing has | long since passed its usefulness with the disappesrance of the objectional features of the sport it was intended to Boxing in the District, he would give to the veterans' here, an increased source (ot revenue for their charitable under- takings. The vote in favor of the resolution { was unanimous. The bill provides- for 10-round no-decision bouts under the control of an unpaid commission of three men. No championships or deci- ths Washington delegation and was en- sions wouid be involved in the bouts, similar to the system in vogue in Min- | nesota, Wisconsin, California, Kansas | and ofher States | The bill for legalized boxing is to be | introduced in Congress by Representa- | tive Royal Johnson. and each Senator | and Representative will receive in-| dividual _communications from the | veterans, requesting support. “Whereas taxation ' without repre- | sentation was one of the major impo- | sition, which caused the United States to become a free nation; and The suffrage resolution follows: | “Whercas the Veterans of Foreign | Wars of the United States represent | citizenship that has fought on foreign | soil to secure liberty and_democracy | for other peoples from 1898 to the | present date; and | “Whereas the residents of the Dis- rict of Columbia have cheerfully ard willingly obeyed all the dictates of good | citizensiup, from bearing arms 10 pay- | ing taxes; and “Whereas the residents of the Dis- | trict of Columbia have been and still are deprived by law of the first ri ! due a citizen of the United States, in | that they do not have the right to vote, in consequence of which they have no | representation whatever in their Na- tional Government and, not being citi- { 1 | zens of a State, cannot sue or be sucd | {n the courts of the United States | Hghe which is accorded even to alie | an “Whereas the principal organizations | of the District of Columbla, with the in- dorsement of the Chamber of Commerce | of the United States, the American Fed- | eration of Labor and the National | League of Woman Voters, are unitedly | and systematically striving to cure this un-American condition through an amenament to the Constitution of the United States empowering Congress to | grant unto the residents of the Dis- | trict of Columbia voting representation | in the Senate and House of Representa- | tives, the vote for President and Vice | President and access to the Federal | courts upon the same basls as citizens of the several States, therefore be it “Resolved, That the Veterans of For- elgn Wars of the United States of | America, in thirtieth annual national | encampment assembled at St. Paul, Minn,, record our belief that the resi- dents of the District of Columbia are 1 justly entitled to full suffrage on a par- | ity with the citizens of every State of | the Union and full representation in the National Government which taxes them | iand sends them to war. We further | record our approval of the pending con- | gressional joint resolution proposing an { amendment to the Constitution of the | | | | United States empowering Congress tog cutter Shawnee located the bodies of | ' cure this existing un-American condi-" two women, unidentified except for the |, i tion. “The department commander of each | | State department and through him each : post commander, 1s hereby requested to | | contact, in writing their respective Sen- | jators and Representatives, asking them | {'to fully support legislation that would | grant to the residents of the District of | Columbia the full rights and benefits of | complete suffrage, particularly as em- | | bodied 1n the aforesaid pending con- | gréssional joint resolution, as one of the'| { fundamental principles for which mem- | { bers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars | have gladly fought on foreign sofl.” Peddling Graf's Letters. NEW YORK, August 31 (P).—Letters with the cancellation mork “First | Round- th>-World Fight: Graf Zeppe- lin” are for sale at $15 retail and $9 | wholcsale. Many collectors mailed them to themselves at $3.50 per. | come chief engineer Seventy-four passengers aboard the steamship San Juan were believed drowned when it sank aft llision with the tanker S. C. T. Dodd off Pigeon Point in the Pacific Ocean, 30 miles south of San Francisco. G A SAN JUAN SURVIVORS RECITE TALE OF TRAGEDY AND HORROR Mother Throws -—Assoclated Press telephoto from Los Angeles. |One Says Exploding Boilers Saved His Life. Son on Tanker.s DCCl(. Thcn perishes. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 31.—Scenes of tragedy and horror accompanying the sinking of the passenger vessel San Juan were reviewed by the 42 survivors here today as some of them recuperated | from the shock and injuries and others sought reunion with anxlous relatives | and friends. Stories of the 31 survivors picked up by the Standard Oil tanker Dodd, which | figured in the collision with the San Juan, as well as the 11 brought in on the Coast Guard cutter Shawnee afler | being rescued by the freighter Munami, | indicated that there has been little chance for the survival of the more than threescore on the missing list. An account_of the sinking by Harry A Wade, a San Juan passenger. who was on his way to Los Angeles to be- of another hip, was typical. : ‘Whirlpool Upset Boat. “At the danger whistles I immediately | assisted in marshaling a lifebcat off the | davits and entered the water with a woman and child and two men.” salu Wade. “We rode 10 yards from the sinking ship when it plunged. The whirlpool threw the lifeboat in the air and we all fell into the water. “I started swimming and looked for the women and the child, but could find no trace of them. One person flozted but he sank. “Swimming around there, I could hear the last screams of the {error- stricken people as they were pulled down into the vortex created by the sinking ship. Wade was picked up by a Munami lifeboat. His ctory contradicted reports that no lifeboats werc launched {rom the San Juan. Senorita Rosa Rulio, & practicing at- terney of Mexico City. who is but 20 years old, told how her brother, J. Rulfo, gave her his lifebelt and went down with the ship. Senorita Rulfo was se- riously injured. A thin vein of comedy ran through some of the stories. Alex Cowie, a pas- senger, said he was carried dewn by the suction of the sirking ship, but was heaved back to the surfac when the | San Juan's boilers exploded. He said the concussion which forced h'm up and probably saved his life cansed him to lose his new set of false teeth which had cost him $120. Unidentified Women Found. Only two bodies had boen recovered up to this morning. The Coast Guard of one. “They were shouting, crying, calling for life, presorvers,” said George Houghton, Los Angeles business man. “Some were praying, scme one was swearing. There must have been lots of persons in the water, bacause I could hear many screams. Then it became deathly still. through my mind. I must have lived an eternity in six or seven minutes. It re- minded me of Dante’s ‘Inferno.’ Perhaps the most extraordinary res- cue was that of 6-year-old Hollis Pifer. ‘When the crash came his mother, Mrs. | Marjcrle Pifer, of Los Angeles, ran out on deck carrying him. She saw the big bow of the oll tanker burled in the side of the San Juan. She tossed her son up to the deck of the tanker and then went down with the San Juan. Little LOS ANGELES “CATCHES” NAVY PLAN T I | Stat A thousand things ran | { Hollis rode safcly into San Francisco on the tanker, | . Bald George Haines, steward of the San Juan: “The chief officer stayed on until the Jast. He turned to me and sald, ‘You fool, jump! I jumped. I was one of the first picked up.” L. B. Heatley of Manila described the scene as “terrible. 1 heard women cry- ing and shrieking for boats to come. People were clinging to boxes. I held on to a large tcol box until rescued.” Several persons collapsed in the frantic_crowd that *beseiged Angelcs offices of the company operat- ing the San Juan, in search of news from relatives aboard the ship, but they were able to learn but little. Sev- cral were sent home in ambulances. | | R. O. Gorman of Los Angeles was | spared ordeal of the wreck when | he sold ticket to Willis Barton, also of Lgs Angeles. Barton sailed on the Son Juan and apparently perished. RETIREMENT SEEN | Admiral Jones’ Status Held | Indication Agreement on | Arms is Near. | | T By the Assoclated . | Added evidence that Anglo-American | naval discussions have reached a point | at which an agreement is-believed to be inear is seen in the announcement that Read Admiral Hilary P. Jones had re- | turned, te: statute. The real admiral, 11927, but has been called back to ac- tive 'duty whenever important matters involving naval policy needed atten- tion, for the past week has been en- | ' gaged with the Navy general board in | checking the technical portions of the | data which the administration has furnished Great Britain this country’s position on naval reduc- For the time being the general board's sk is done and. in the words of one | initials “J. L. M." on a ring on the hand | of jts members, “There will now be a | brief pause for station announcements." he same situation prevailed at the e Dep: son out of the city and other high of- ficials relaxing from the strain of the |last several days during which they | regular hours, | President Hoover, who for several days, has given the disarmament ques- tion more time than any other matter | tains over Labor day. Admiral Jones made il clear yeste: day that his return to inactive stati did not signify the ending of his naval | career. He left for a rest in Néw Eng- | land, but will be available any day and | may return to active duty when needed | elther for consultation or to represent {the Navy at a disarmament session, as i he has done twice before. At the time of his retirement the rear admiral was ranking officer of the Navy and had just ended 47 years of acti service by acting as a delegate to the three-power arms limitation conference of 1927. Since then, however, his valu- able experience has caused him to be recalled repeatedly. importance of labor’s holiday. ‘The Nation has moved forward country’s progress. greater importance than these is the nporarily at least, to retired ’ | Juan’s port light—the light on the left | who retffed in regarding | ment, with Secretary Stim- | have been kept at their desks long after | | confronting him, also left the White | House, for a visit to the Virginia moun- | Those Who Perished In San Juan Crash 1 | | | Br the Associated Press. H SAN FRANCISCO, August 31. | —Names of those missing in the San Juan wreck, as compiled to- night by the Associated Press from ali available sources, with home towns where that informa- tion was available, follow: Passengers—F, M. Mosses, Mrs, ‘Marjorie Pifer, Los Angeles; M. Mathews, R. R. Menner, A. D. Hillbrand, R. A. Davis, Leslie Seabury, Julias More, E. D. Marshall. Fred E. Glund, James Dougherty, G. Navarro, S. Fisher, | | Jose Cazares, J. Sanchez, — Col- vin (man), Mrs. John Early, Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Josephine Foley. Paul Wagner, Stanford Univer- sity; Willis rton, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Sheppard, Miss Sheppard. Capt. A. P. MacNeill, Mrs. L. H. Kendall, Mrs. L. H. | | Mohler, Mrs. Martin _Hanson, | | Mrs. H. L. Field. Mrs. E. Fraser, | Mrs. ‘Theodore Grandstedt, Mountain View, Calif.; son, San Jos Olson, San Jose, Calif. tie Simons, Max Wil Bell, W. Fuchs, — Hill (man), Curris, J. O. Edeler, Marysville, Calif. Crew—Capt. A. F. Asplund, San Francisco; Jack Cleveland, purser and chief steward; M. Apple, first assistant engineer; John Lewis, second assistant engineer; Wil- Jam Cain: seaman; George Constantine, seaman;’ F. A. Lier, seamon: A. Von Bank, seaman; Pete Knutson, seamon; J. Kro- mann, seaman: Ernest Lang, seaman: A. E. Lynn, seaman: P. Murphy, seaman; George Watts, . | seaman: George Whitcomb, sea- man: Albert Astrada, seaman; Jack Doyle, seaman; B. Giles, seaman; Ernest Knight, seaman; | | H. Beardsley. seaman: A. Gon i zales, seaman: J. Bonzales, s man: John Henderson, seama B. Bohan, seaman: J. Dougherty, seaman: Pete Hawley, seaman; Joe McDonald. seaman. SAN JUAN DEATH LIST MAY REACH 74, CHECK REVEALS _(Continued From First Page.) | | - | | | | out trouble. on our right side. We held |0 our own course.. “The next thing I saw was the San side of the ship. That meant that the ship had made almost a full swing. right across our bow. this I rang full speed astern. “With the engines reversed, I blew the proper signal, three blasts on the | whistle, to show that we were in full speed astern. I signaled three times | from the San Juan. She had reversed | her engines by that time, but we were almost together. If she had not revers- ed her engine we could have missed her. e Dodd hit the San Juan on an angle. just aft of the middle of the ship.” Oldest Passenger Vessel. Th» San Juan had seen 47 years of | sarvice, making it onme of the oldest Seagoing passenger vessels in_service under the American flag. Witnesses said the steel prow of the Dodd sliced through the iron sides of the old ship with a splintering crash. | Pandemonium followed. The lights of | the passenger vessel were cut off as if | by a switch, she sank. Lifeboats went | unlaunched; life preservers in most cases never were donned. One woman, | Mrs. Marjorie Pifer of Los Anegels, half | pushed. half lifted her 6-vear-old son to the forecastle head of the big tanker | as its prow wedged in the side of the passenger ship. A 14-year-boy, Sol | Karansky of Los Angeles, and one man { also climbed across in safety before the | vessels drifted apart. | Thickening fog enveloped wreck and | vietims. Oil from the wreck coated the ocean surface, clogging the throats of those thrown free of the wreckage, drowning those last cries which might have brought rescuers. A Labor Day Message BY JAMES J. DAVIS (Seeretary of Labor) The passing of each year has marked an increase in the dignity and into world prestige and its 45,000,000 gainfully employed people, comprising the great bulk of our population, have also moved forward into a new place of worth and dignity in the ‘Wealth hes Increased and production has been guickened: but of even present spirit of good will which has now come to pass between employers and workers. The coyntry at large now realizes, more strongly than ever before, that production is dependent upon the friendly partnership between em- ployers and workers, and distress to,the one means distress to the other. Each has reasoned out the truth that in union there is strengths, and that co-operation in industry means greater service to the public, profit to those who are fostering mmdustry and lberal wages to the workers. When I saw| before 1 heard the answering whistle " NS AULS Mountain Folk Listen With Interest to Telling of Childish, Tale. | { | __(Continued From First Page.) |after child—and their interests still ! were the same as those of their small hildren. So, for that matter, were | the interests of their hushands and { fathers. And in that thrilling moment iwhen baby bear discovers Goldilocks { asleep in his bed some of the frail | worn mothers woud spit out their cuds of tobacco in their growing excitement. | It is a pathetic little building—this i tiny log school house with its mud- chinked walls, less than five hours {away from the Capital of the United ! States. It is a county school built 18 | years ago. Then there was a throe- month school session. It did not open lagain until 1925, when there was an- | other three-month session. Nicholson Hollow—a cluster of log cabins far above the average in comfort |and cleanliness—is a converging point 1 of Stony Mountain trails. A few miles {away is the modern Summer resort of Skyland. Five miles in another direc- { tion is the store and post office at Old Rag. Three miles below is Corbin Hollow with its wretched. tumbledown | shacks and ragged children. Attracted by Curlosity. Sizer came to Nicholzon his Summer she found the schoolhouse in a wreiched condition. ! with the mud falln away from the | walls and the logs ready to collaps-. {But_men in the neighborhood, rather { suspiciously at first, repaired it for her land the folks from the hollows began { trooping in out of curiosity. All were chewing tobacco, from bare-footed grandpa to the tiniest children. Flaxen- | haired girls who would have been an- | gelic-looking children with their face washed and with clean dresses appear- ed with rims of tobacco stain around their mouths. Children in the moun- tains are given tobacco to chew almost as soon as they are through nursinz. Some say—and it probably is not an exaggeration—that mothers stick a cud in a baby's mouth to keep it from cry- ing. | Out of a class of 20 children which |she finally got together, Miss Sizer | found that only three or four ever had seen the American flag and only onr ever had heard the Lord’s Praver | was necessady to start from the b°g | ning with all of them. Miss Sizer ob- tained whole-hearted co-operation from onc of the older boys, especially in her efforts to promote cleanlin She tried to teach the children to brush { their teeth. After the first demonstra- | tion this boy was'so thoroughly con- verted that he generously offered \a chew of tobacco to all the others who would use the toothbrush the next day. He was obliged to keep his promise. Despite many generations of clos> inbreeding and at least two generations of almost absolute illiteracys Miss Sizer was able to obtain an excelient response by patient effort. Although no intel- ligence tests have been given. there {little reason to suppose that the av {age would be below normal During | these two months one boy of 19—who | had Treceived a little training from I¢ { fasher, who can read—read through two primers and the first reader, wrote a | simple letter, and learned to write numbers up to 1.000. The rest of th- | adult class. most of whom had had n» | previous ~ training. read through one {primer. The 8-to-10-vear-old class read 30 pages of the first primer and four or five learned the 2lphab>t. The j 6-year-olds learned to read a few words, to trace over figures from 0 to 9, and to trace over a few letters. Record Exceptional. This record is exceptional. consider- ing that in the beginning Miss Sizer had very little in th> way of mental equipment to work with. The senses of the children never had been trained. {1t is a mistake to assume that these mountain children living close to nature. and in constant contact with the birds jand flowers, are keen observers of nature. A child in a Washington apartment hcuse. whose senses have b2en trained in the kindergarten, prob- ably knows much more of nature and nature’s ways thanythese waifs of the !hills. To them a bird is a bird and a flower a flower and it is “pur-r-tv.” They have not sharp eves and ears, Miss Sizer found. bzcause they never hav> learned to use these senses. Thus she was faced with the most j difficult material possible for a teacher— | dullness of senses. Possibly the uni- versal tobacco chewing habit con- tributed to it. Besides there was th» | outstanding malnutrition of the children i which made concentration of the at- | tention too much of a physical effort. | But apparently dullness of the senses and inability to fix attention on details, the forms of letters, is not en y synonymous with mental dullne: and Miss Sizer has found that the con- dition may be overcome by constant stimulation. It would be a much simpler matter, . however, to teach children to read if they already had learned to obscrive birds and flowers. No Hostility. ‘The same difficulty was with the adults. But Miss school has been visited as ing sociological laboratory by ex from the Department of Agriculture and from the University of Virginia, never has encountered any hostility to literacy such as often is reported from mountain communities. The people are indifferent to educa- tion, but they apparently have no ob- jections if it is brought to them. There is no inferiority complex which would cause them to link literacy with effemi- nacy. Once their interest is aroused they make rapid progress, but outsiders must teach them all about the living things of their own hollows At first they in school like children drugged or asleep. Their senses have never been trained to listen to one thing. And they are afraid of innovations. Some moving pictures were shown in the school house this Summer. When the lights went out a child cried: “He's making it dark so he can kill_us.” ‘The mountain people have a constant fear of the dark, for i is then that bare feet tread on iattlesnakes. They seldom venture out of the hovels after dark. |BRAZIL DEDICATES ; -HIGHWAY MONUMENT Marker to Encourage Road Build- ing Is 50 Miles From Rio de Faneiro. encountered Sizer, whose It is a diverting tale and it's told by the Quaker General who took these nnwlll(nglyec{)eueahle young gentlemen to China in 1927, to protect American lives and property during civil war, * kK kX General Butler tells of the scowl which scattered an army—of the sturdy Yankee admiral who “bossed” an Allied fleet—of the Chinese general who made $425,- . 000 a year—of the impatient soldier man, himself, who busted up a diplomatic parley and saved the day. x %k % i It's a scrapper’s story and you'll enjoy it. The policy has become a fixed one today, because a liberal pay en- velope means the ability to purchase not only the necessities, but some of the luxuries of life as well. While we are rejoicing over the progiess of labor, industry and busi- }1:::. we cannot lose sight of some of the pressing problems which .af- us so vitally. There is, of course, the evef-present problem of un- employment, which is receiving added impetus from time to time by rapid institution of machinery, the frequent displacer of some of our most capa- ble hand workers. 5 There is also a tendency among certain employers to make wastage of men of 45 znd 50 years of age, who are oftt!mes retired in order to make way for younger workers. 2 “ Other problems are constantly growing out of immigration, the urban movement of agricultural workers .and the coming to work age yearly of pproximately 2,000,000 boys and girls who are ready to knock at the gates of employment. E 3 But with ‘patlence and With the understanding and intelligence of both workers, employers and the country’s best interests we shall solve these problems just as we have solved those of years gone by. Let us ever: _in mind that our prosperily is wrapped CHICAGO, August 31 (#).—Rev. Cor- n-lius F, Donovan, 54, managing editor of the New World, a Catholic publica- tion, died today following a short ill- ness. Father Donovan was born i1 Hamilton, Ontario. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers'’ Home Military Band, at the bandstand, at 5:30 o'clok, John S. M. Zimmermann, band- master; Anton Pointner, assistant Jeader. + March, “Prince Charming"”......Sousa ‘The Dolls of Nuremberg,” ' Adams ,Nevin .Langey “Gabri- Pizzi By Cable to The Star. RIO DE JANEIRO, August 31— Brazil's good roads monument, located about 50 miles from this city, on the road to Sao Paulo, was dedicated Thurs- day with ceremonies attended by del- gates to the second Pan-American Con- gress, high government officials and many prominent civilians. The monu- ment is situated on one of the peaks of the Serro 40 Mar Range. Dr. Miranda Jurado, president of the |- Brazil Touring Club, addressed the dele- gates, explaining the monument, erected through subscription of public funds, to encourage constriction of good ys. ¢ - The Series Starts Tomorrow THE SUNDAY STAR. To Be Cmuinugd Daily. t, built of cement, is The *first and " e 110 feet in_ ond_floors